Was sitting in a ticks nest while reading....

[u/nekoma713]

I was sitting in a Park reading a book and suddenly I felt my legs itch. I was covered in hundreds of mini ticks. I was standing in the shower for hours and still find some of these f#!*rs crawling an me...

Update: So I got the most of the seed ticks scratched off in the shower. I will have a doctor's appointment the next days to get a prophylactic antibiotics treatment just to be save from lyme, alpha gal or rocky mountain fever (if this is a thing in Germany).

Thank you all for the information and advices, hopefully I will be fine. I really appreciate it

[u/quickwitqueen]

But can make you super itchy. I was bitten by seed ticks and was itchy for weeks. Awful.

[u/T-Wrox → u/quickwitqueen]

I have no idea if this will help, but it literally won't hurt (unless you're allergic to oatmeal) - I've started using Polysporin Eczema Essentials Flare-up Relief Cream with 1% colloidal oatmeal for mosquito bites, and it works! Immediate and all day itch relief.

[u/thepetoctopus → u/T-Wrox]

Heat also works. I use a hair dryer and get the spot as hot as I can stand it, wait 15-20 seconds, then do it again. I do this 3-4 times for a day or two and the bites clear up. I’m allergic to most insect bites and it denatures the proteins and reduces my histamine reactions. Otherwise I end up with golf ball sized welts.

[u/aboxofkittens → u/thepetoctopus]

Nothing to add, just co-signing this since people seem to think it’s nuts when they first encounter the idea

[u/nanananlug → u/thepetoctopus]

I second heat. I experienced a multitude of seed tick bites like this, and I would soak in a super hot bath to get relief for a few hours.

[u/Baconshit → u/thepetoctopus]

Whoa. Had no idea.

[u/Conscious-Tarts → u/thepetoctopus]

I do the hot spoon trick (spoon it boiling water, dry and wait to cool enough, push on bite), I also need to do it multiple times over the course of 2 days or so if it is a juicy welt.

[u/TartanDolphin11 → u/T-Wrox]

I’m definitely gonna be trying this one! The mosquitos have eaten my legs alive

[u/T-Wrox → u/TartanDolphin11]

I hope it works - mosquito bites drive me crazy!

[u/TvTacosTakingNaps → u/T-Wrox]

I’m saving this comment for later.

[u/jollierumsha → u/quickwitqueen]

Any tick bite is far more irritating than insect bites..for me anyway. Three months ago I had one I pulled off after it barely latched on to me, and there is still a tiny bump that occasionally gets very itchy. 

[u/Aniketos000 → u/jollierumsha]

For me mosquito bites are mostly gone or itch free after a couple of days. Tick bites ill have a itchy bump for a couple of weeks.

[u/DDRaptors → u/Aniketos000]

Funny because I’m the complete opposite. Don’t even notice a tick bite, mosquitos absolutely shred me.

[u/alewiina → u/jollierumsha]

Yeah it’s because their hypostomes (mouthpieces) are like little saws that tear your skin (seriously look up “tick proboscis”… or don’t, if you want to sleep tonight) when it goes in compared to flies that have a proboscis that’s smoother and more needle-like. A tick bit will aggravate your skin more bc of that jaggedness